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  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. The Design Issues
  4. Standard Population Choices
  5. Parsing, Standardization and Cleaning
  6. Customer Identification Systems
  7. Fraud and Intelligence Systems
  8. Marketing Systems
  9. Simple Search
  10. Summary

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Generic Indexes

Generic Indexes

SSA-NAME3 can build generic keys and search ranges from Person Names, Addresses and Organization Names. To create generic keys, the application sends a request to SSA-NAME3 and passes
FIELD= Generic_Field
 in the Controls parameter of the
get_keys
 API. Generic data can contain person names, organization names, addresses, or a combination of these field types. The key building algorithm used by
Generic_Field
 overcomes some of the errors and variations that are common across entities such as person names, organization names, and addresses.
Applications may pass multiple Generic Fields such as names and addresses in the one call to SSA-NAME3.
Generic_Field
 is normally used to create homogeneous keys for various types of data. A single index table can then be used to store the keys. The application may implement a generic search with the help of such an index, where the type of data is not available.
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